Quotes About Fear

Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

The one thing I thought I would never be able to do was sing on television.

Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.

I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.

Pablo really felt the suffering of people and so became a political animal. But he wanted to bring down extradition because this was the only thing he feared, and it became his obsession, his crusade, his cross.

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

I have phobias of everything you can name, but the problem with hypnotism is handing control over to someone else - and that is one of my phobias!

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don't know. That just wasn't in my DNA.

For me, the litmus test to know whether or not I'm doing the right thing is to examine whether my decisions are love-based or fear-based.

You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why the TSA screens everything and takes your stuff away.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.